Nintendo games, which will be monetized using the free-to-start model, will become popular both in Asian and Western markets,” says Shintaro Asako, CEO of DeNA’s western branch.

Repression is working: despite the scandals, Konami’s operating profit increased by 86% in the last quarter.

There is new information about the mobile game Rayman Adventures. The project from the French Ubisoft team will be distributed on a shareware model.

The Grand Prix and the prize for the best art at the Indie Game Cup 2015, held as part of White Nights 2015, was awarded to the game Lost Socks Naughty Brothers by Nerf Game. We talked to the team about the history of the studio and the game itself.

Facebook has opened access to new advertising formats, including native video clips, to customers of its own Audience Network advertising network. The creators of the social network told about this in a blog for developers.

Google may be preparing to launch an affiliate program for its Google Play store. This is reported by the resource 9to5Google with reference to information from an informed source.

The card collectible game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft brings Blizzard about $20 million monthly.

The other day, Eric Seufert, Vice President for Acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, published a presentation of his report with GDC Europe 2015. There are a lot of interesting things there (including an explanation of how to compete with the giants of the market), so we decided to give a short text that retells it in general terms.

DeltaDNA analyst Isaac Roseboom shared on the company’s blog how the monetization indicators of games on “old” smartphones differ from games on more modern devices. We publish a retelling of the text.

Animoca Brands has announced that in the latest update (released yesterday, August 10), Star Girl has added virtual items branded with the name of American socialite Paris Hilton.

The former CEO of Fishlabs studio, known for the Galaxy on Fire series of mobile space sims, is raising money for the Everspace PC game.

During the year, sales of games under the Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise amounted to about 10 million, it became known from the Take-Two conference call following the results of the first fiscal quarter of 2016, which ended for the company on June 30, 2015.

In a month and a half since the release, users have bought 100 thousand copies of Her Story from Sam Barlow, the screenwriter of Silent Hill. The author of the detective game told about this on his Twitter.

Tuomo Korpinen became the new executive vice president of the media department of Rovio Entertainment. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the company.

From time to time – looking at night – we will post links to interesting videos not from wnconf. We’ll start with a curious presentation read by a Supercell server programmer at GDC 2015.

Isometric horror Stasis from the indie team The Brotherhood is about to appear on Steam. If the players accept the project well, then there is a possibility of its release on the iPad.

The French mobile game developer Gameloft announced a full-fledged continuation of Order last Friday with the opening of the official website & Chaos Online – Order & Chaos 2: Redemption.

The St. Petersburg team IzHard after the victory of their OVIVO project at the Microsoft championship received an offer to publish the game from the authors of Shadow Fight.

Chartboost marketing company in its own blog shared the differences between players using iOS devices from players who prefer Android. We offer a thesis retelling of the article.